Sorry, There's No Way To Save The TV Business — The traditional TV industry—cable companies, networks, and broadcasters—is where the newspaper industry was about five years ago: — In denial. — There are murmurings on the edges about how longstanding business models will come under pressure …

Mozilla casts doubt on Microsoft's browser gambit — You'd think that Microsoft's rivals would welcome the company's announcement that it will ship Windows 7 in Europe without an internet browser. — After 15 years (that's how long ago it was that the US first forced Microsoft …

iPhone OS 3.0 Re-Download Message A “Bug” Says Apple — The iPhone OS 3.0 re-download message saga may finally have come to a surprisingly positive conclusion. — We first reported seeing this new re-download message a little over a week ago when attempting to re-downloading an already purchased application.

11 million Safari downloads? Um. Sort of — Apple is no stranger to hyperbole. In fact, they sort of reinvented it, and regularly take it to new levels. The week of WWDC, you might normally expect the hyperbole to have burned out by the time Bertrand “Grima Wormtongue” …

Facebook Username Registration Opens Tonight — Facebook username registration opens for the firs time in just a few hours, marking a major milestone in Facebook identity. For the first time since Facebook began over 5 years ago, users will be able to choose a username to go by on the site.

WWDC+Palm Pre = Rollercoaster Week — Haven't blogged in quite a while thanks to exams and whatnot, but this week I've been in San Francisco for Apple's World Wide Developers Conference with a sizable group of other Irish developers. And wow what a week it's been.

Rumor: Xbox Natal is Actually Microsoft's Next Console — So you know how Microsoft is saying Natal will be as big as a console launch? Well...yeah. — Earlier this week gaming blog Kotaku quoted Microsoft's Shane Kim as saying that the launch of Natal, Microsoft's new controller-free …

Pentagon Cyber Unit Prompts Questions — New Command's Offensive Role Complicates Administration's Global Outreach — The Pentagon's development of a “cyber-command” is prompting questions about its role in the larger national strategy to protect government and private-sector computer networks and whether privacy can be protected.

Bands ‘better because of piracy’ — The rise of illegal downloading has been good for the music scene, helping to create a generation of exciting new acts, according to US band Fleet Foxes. — File-sharing has been the scourge of record labels for the past decade.

Find Creative Commons Images in Google Image Search — Google Image Search added the option to restrict the results to images that are licensed using Creative Commons, a list of flexible licenses that allow content creators to share their works with the world.

DVD Jon's Ad at the Apple Store: the Mystery Continues — It's up. It's down. It's up. It's down. That's the brief, updated history of a billboard-style ad posted by the Norwegian hacker Jon Lech Johansen next to Apple's store in downtown San Francisco, the subject of an item here last Saturday.

Google Changing Street View to Appease EU — At the request of a European data protection group, Google has made a few changes to the international version of its Street View feature. — Street View is a popular feature within Google Maps which provides street-by-street, 360-degree photographs of major cities throughout the world.

Hundreds of jobs on the line as MySpace considers cuts — Struggling social networking site considers closing offices in San Francisco and Europe - and could announce a decision as early as next week — MySpace is considering closing down a number of offices around the world as it attempts …